darkcloud Posted May 18, 2006 Posted May 18, 2006 So I have everything set up properly.... My shitty 17gb hdd with windows installed in the primary master ide, my primary slave ide is my 180gb (or something like that) hdd filled with anime etc... Then my primary sata is my new 300GB hdd.. I turn it on blahblah go to bios menu set up my boot order... Exit save... Wait................ Disk boot failure......... please instal boot disk..... Now I would find this acceptable if and only if I hadn't been booting windows from this hdd for so long and if I did know it worked perfectly before hmmm 2 days ago... So yeah, does anyone know what I should do? ; ;
Bogbas Posted May 18, 2006 Posted May 18, 2006 This just happened all of a sudden? You didn't make any changes to your hd configuration? It seems like it's either looking for the mbr in the wrong place, or the mbr is corrupted somehow.
darkcloud Posted May 18, 2006 Author Posted May 18, 2006 This is the new computer I'm building...... I have added a new sata 300gb hd but that's the only harddrive change I have made.... :-/
Shorty Posted May 18, 2006 Posted May 18, 2006 With all the drives you've moved around, are you sure you're putting them in the right boot order in BIOS? Maybe your DVD drive isn't D, and something else should be first.
darkcloud Posted May 18, 2006 Author Posted May 18, 2006 I defo checked that..... My harddrives are in the right boot order....... *cry*
Bogbas Posted May 21, 2006 Posted May 21, 2006 Hmm, didn't I post this before? Well anyway check that it's not trying to boot from the sata drive. As that's the only good explanation I can think of that causes that kind of behaviour. The boot order should be like this; 1st: DVD drive, 2nd: floppy/IDE hd 3rd:hd
darkcloud Posted May 21, 2006 Author Posted May 21, 2006 I already reinstalled windows...... It works now.... I really could have just used a boot disk but a) I don't have one and b) the other pc's in the house don't have a functioning floppy drive to make one....... Floppys suck... All.... well nearly all is well now anyway.
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